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Andrew M.

Andrew M.

Joined on 11/08/05

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Most Favorable Review

Fantastic board

GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
GIGABYTE GA-EX58-UD3R LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard

Pros: i7 920, fits Vigor Monsoon fan with room to spare (and it's a monster heat sink) add 6 gigs of ram, overclock to your hearts content. They don't advertize all it's features, but compare to gigbytes other boards, and take the savings for higher density ram. :) If you are feint hearted, buy this, the above fan, the rest, run easy tune, set to 3.2 gigs and forget it. faster than a 965 for a lot less. if you are braver, this is a sweet board to overclock with... Of course your mileage will vary.

Cons: I couldn't get the I7 920 to 5 gig on air? This thing is

Most Critical Review

1066 Not!!

G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK
G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 1066 (PC2 8500) Dual Channel Kit Desktop Memory Model F2-8500CL5D-4GBPK

Pros: Came up, ran quietly with little fuss. This is my 5th set of g.skill ram.

Cons: Would not remain stable at it's rated speed. When I set the motherboard to 1066 it started failing stability tests. Falling back to 800 it ran fine. No amount of voltage or memory settings would get it to behave at the box settings.

Overall Review: This is my 5th set of Gskill memory set, and the first one that didn't perform as advertised so... I'd buy another set and see what happened, though I might look at the competition first.

Worked great for 7 hours, and then...

Seasonic FOCUS PX-850, 850W 80+ Platinum, Full-Modular, ATX Form Factor, Low Noise, Premium Japanese Capacitor, 10 Year Warranty, Nvidia RTX 30/40 Super, AMD GPU Compatible, Ref# SSR-850PX
Seasonic FOCUS PX-850, 850W 80+ Platinum, Full-Modular, ATX Form Factor, Low Noise, Premium Japanese Capacitor, 10 Year Warranty, Nvidia RTX 30/40 Super, AMD GPU Compatible, Ref# SSR-850PX

Pros: Seems well built, lots of connectors, QUIET.

Cons: Used in a small mining rig with a total load of less then 500 watts (measured input to the power supply, so less coming out after power loss factor) and it didn't run 8 hours. Intention was to add second power supply later, but now I have to replace this one and add second one. I had a 650 on hand and it's been carrying the same load for days now, so wasn't overloaded.

Overall Review: I may have gotten a bad one, it happens sometimes, but didn't work out well for me... I was impressed completely till it died and since I have never used a seasonic before I gave it three stars because I am feeling generous. Now to test return policy

Great heatsink but...

Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm Fan CPU Cooler Socket 1366 Ready
Vigor Monsoon III LT Dual 120mm Fan CPU Cooler Socket 1366 Ready

Pros: i7 920 running 3.66ghz... also have one on an AMD Phenom II, also overclocked a good deal. Your mileage may vary, but it worked great for me. It's Big and Looks Cool. hehe, it is cool...

Cons: It's too big for some cases. I have an antec 1200 and my son's case if pretty large too so no problems! Fans on mine have worn out in little over a year. I'll be checking his today, his is newer so maybe they are still ok. Luckily I opened my case up in 68 degree bedroom to look at something else. If it was summer I have a bad feeling that I might have a different review.

Overall Review: This is a great heat sink. It's a great cooler, I'd buy another one tomorow, but I will replace the fans before I'll put the lid on the box next time.

Works for me

SimpleTech SimpleDrive Portable 160GB USB 2.0 2.5" External Hard Drive (Designed by Pininfarina) SP-U25/160
SimpleTech SimpleDrive Portable 160GB USB 2.0 2.5" External Hard Drive (Designed by Pininfarina) SP-U25/160

Pros: Small, near silent, convienent. I bought it for travel, as I needed more space on my laptop. It has worked excellently. I use VMWare on it, so it essentially serves up the entire OS, and I don't notice any significant drawbacks in speed.. Used on 5 different computers and never needed external power or even the second USB plug.

Cons: My copy is pink... They offered in colors where I bought it (not newegg this time, needed instant gratification)and pink was $20 cheaper than other colors. Other than that no complaints, I love this little unit.

Overall Review: It's 160 gigs unformatted, you loose a few megs to the formatting, that's normal. Of course the industry could start publishing formatted size, but then it would have to decide formatted PC or mac, windows or unix etc etc. Anyway, I'm thinking about getting some more for other apps because it's so tiny and seems pretty tough. I